Some countries (DK, e.g.) have programs that allow persons with specific educations and/or job skills to move to the country first and look for the job second. But you have to jump through a lot of (probably expensive) hoops, including providing proof that you have X amount of money to support yourself. And you have to secure a job within a limited time frame.

This is our last full week in the USA. We travel back to DK on a weekday next week, and then five days later we will leave on a road trip to Poland. So we need to really buckle down this week. It is NLE week. Hugs, mama25. I will have to say goodbye to my oldest boy next week. It is so hard, and I worry about him a lot, too.

Salt mines look cool, and they are open Friday and Sat.And I will try to find the jam tart :)

Ha! I read about that. It is Easter Monday.I just booked four nights in an apartment. So even if the restaurants are closed, we will be able to eat :) I am hoping the Easter Market will be open Friday and Saturday. Auschwitz is open except for Easter Sunday, and we plan to go there for a day. ETA: I am a lapsed Catholic, but very much looking forward to an Easter mass in Krakow.

I think we are going to Krakow for Easter weekend. If anyone has any suggestions or tips, I am all ears. We will be driving. Any idea if shops and restaurants will be open Good Friday and Holy Saturday? Know anything about the Easter Markets in Poland? Would they be open on the days leading up to Easter? We never stay in Denmark for Easter. It is so boring!!! EVERYTHING is closed Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We went to Prague once for Easter and there was a lively Easter market and lots of festivities. I am hoping that Poland will be similar.

Public Health (Pardon me for adding to my own thread, but I want to keep the research together. Anyway, you never know what future reader you will benefit.)

Thanks :) For some odd reason, there is no "like" button on your post. And I am not out of likes!

He is interested in psychology as a career, but is exploring other options before application season. Do you know of other programs do not require an undergrad in the field? I know MBA does not, because that is the grad school program I took after an engineering undergrad.

Oak Meadow has a semester course called The Modern Middle East. http://oakmeadow.com/courses/the-modern-middle-east/

Middle DS is a junior majoring in psychology (BA). He wants to go on to grad school. He will probably try to get into a masters program in psychology, but I am helping him brainstorm other options. Besides psychology, what other grad programs could he look into? Business?

Nope, I don't know anything useful. I just happened to see it & I think it sounds like a winning combo of texts.

I'll mention this in case someone is interested. I saw that Lone Pine is offering a class next year that combines Jacobs Geometry with the Workbook for Arguments.

I will show that to my TCK - thanks :)

For the English, how about: Literature and Composition I and II I doubt that many colleges care about PE, but she already has a half credit of Health. If you could manage to get a half credit of PE out of her, her transcript would align with many standard transcripts (0.5 Health, 0.5 PE). Had to chuckle a bit as I am well acquainted with skinny potatoes.

Not exactly the same thing, but my DH was offered a job (unexpected opportunity) overseas and we took it for the adventure. We easily could have stayed put. I don't regret the move, but almost nothing turned out the way I had envisioned it. Nothing. Not the money nor the language nor the education nor the social life nor the...you get the idea. Some things are better than expected and some are not. I just read I am a Triangle, and it sums up my feelings. You can Google it - it shows up on several sites. Right now, I am in the USA and feeling somewhat out of place. Not with my immediate family, fortunately. But I worry about wonder what my life will be like when I repatriate, which I will do at some point. I'm kind of bracing myself for a period of depression. And sometimes, I can't wait. OP, you of course are not yet wondering what it would be like to move back :) I am straying off topic!

My son did KWI amd Expository Essay in 8th. For 9th, he did two Boomerang Book Club months and he will take the Shakespeare in May. I'm hoping to convince him to do the June Photography and Writing, and put it towards Fine Arts. He will balk at working on school until July, but we'll see :) I love handing over English for a few weeks and then having it back for our own thing. It is the best if both worlds for us.

Funny, but I am intimidated by Excel :)

Oh, well I should have said that essay writing has to be done nearly every day as well. Otherwise he would keep skipping over that. Sorry. I'm "directing traffic" all the time so that there isn't a whole day of watching videos or even a whole day of just reading. But these are more nudges than mandates. I try to give weekly assignments that balance activities across the curriculum. I don't always hit the balance mark perfectly.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this topic. DS has a template on OneNote that he fills out each week. The columns are the days of the week, and the rows are the subjects. At the end of the table, there are two more columns: Hours Scheduled and Hours Completed. I fill out the Hours Scheduled column at the beginning of the week, because I keep an eye on the big picture. Danish and Biology were getting a bit neglected, so they got a bump up this week. English and History were running way ahead, so they got bumped down to compensate. Math is the only thing that must be done daily. Otherwise, he is free to work in whatever increments he wants. He just has to log in his time after he completes something. He can switch subjects every thirty minutes or every two hours. I make my availability very clear. My office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. :) First thing in the morning, I tell him if I have to go out during our normal school hours for an appointment or something.

It is only showing Chemistry Intensives through Spring 2016. I guess I just have to keep checking.

Thank you! Any idea when intensives schedules for 2016-2017 would appear?

I bought a generic Landry intensive for Fall 2015 or later with the idea of using it for Chemistry lab in Fall 2016 or Spring 2017. Those intensives are not yet scheduled, far as I can tell. Am I supposed to do something by tomorrow, the last discount date? I am so confused!!

Grr. I have an internet outage at my house today and I can't make my follow-up post using my phone. Too hard! Will try tomorrow :)

Alas, it is not easy to get with English subtitles. I did buy a version with English subtitles, but we (finally!) have progressed enough to watch it with Danish subtitles. I think I bought it through amazon.uk, but I will look at my records. I actually bought it a few years ago. The other issue is that it is only available in the European DVD format, so you would have to have a player that can play that region. It really is fantastic so far. We are only on episode 8...a lot left to watch. That online site actually has the manuscripts (in Danish) for the first 12 episodes. We use those and the episode summaries AFTER we watch to sort out the parts that confused us.

We are in NC for two more weeks, and we finally have some nice weather. Mmm, I am loving being in the land of Whole Foods and Barnes and Noble :lol: . It is always hard to stay motivated to work on Danish when we are not in Denmark. Fortunately, I prepared for that. We started watching Matador, and it is fantastic. It is a Danish miniseries that originally broadcast in the 1970s, and covers the time frame of 1929 to 1945. It remains the most-watched series in Denmark, and I can see why. The characters and the storytelling are first-rate. And there is also a ton of history to be absorbed. Win!! Trying to cram for the National Latin Exam (NLE). Ugh. I don't think he will take it next year. We just never seem to get organized enough to be on top of it. Books we are currently reading: Odyssey The Year of Living Danishly (funny) The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson (read-aloud)